Words need love too represents, perhaps, Kamau Brathwaite's most concentrated effort at fashioning anew literary tradition out of the fragmented pieces/rhythms/nation languages that form the New World. The poems in this volume are "dreamstories." It is a harvest of dreams of a new world, cleansed in ancestral blood, loved without reservation by those born into it and with it, so that thorough it, they can shape a new reality, a new destiny,. No other poet, living or dead, makes us participate in, and CO-celebrants of the liturgy of the word, like Brathwaite. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Kamau Brathwaite is a distinguished Caribbean poet, literary critic and historian. He is Professor of History at the University of the West Indies. His works include the poetic trilogy The Arrivants, Mother Poem and Sun Poem, The Development of Creole Societies in the Jamaica 1770-1820, Contradictory Oems, Love Axe/1 and numerous other publications.